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Quotes about Judgment

To those leaders around the globe who seek to sow conflict, or blame their society's ills on the West - know that your people will judge you on what you can build, not what you destroy.
— Barack Obama
Look at yourself before you pass judgment. Don't make someone else clean up your mess.
— Barack Obama
As a general rule, I would say that human beings never behave more badly toward one another than when they believe they are protecting God.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
When you do not speak, other people presume you to be deaf or feeble-minded and promptly make a show of their own limitations.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Poor thing, thought Garnett, to have to commit yourself so hard to one moment of poor judgment.
— Barbara Kingsolver
If no one has said outright that spying on Mr. Axelroot is a sin, then God probably couldn't technically hold it against me.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Maybe it's true what they say, that as long as you're nursing your own pain, whatever it is, you'll turn your back on others in the same boat. You'll want to believe the fix they're in is their own damn fault.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Recently it has been decided, grudgingly, that dark skin or lameness may not be entirely one's fault, but one still ought to show the good manners to act ashamed.
— Barbara Kingsolver
We judge ourselves by our intentions and others by their actions
— Stephen Covey
My experience has been that there are times to teach and times not to teach. When relationships are strained and the air charged with emotion, an attempt to teach is often perceived as a form of judgment and rejection.
— Stephen Covey
All of us are interested in things outside of our stewardships, and we should be, but the most important way to do anything about them is to magnify our own stewardships. When you focus on your own responsibility, you become relatively unconcerned with other peoples stewardships...The highest form of influence is to be a model, not a critic; a light, not a judge.
— Stephen Covey
When relationships are strained and the air charged with emotion, an attempt to teach is often perceived as a form of judgment and rejection.
— Stephen Covey